INVESTIGATIONS: The Hit Parade

"The faces will be different," said
Arkansas' John McClellan as he gaveled his Senate labor-racketeering
committee into session last week, but "the basic, underlying methods of
operation will be greatly similar." McClellan expected to prove during
a four-week investigation of the nation's $2 billion-a-year
coin-machine industry that: 1) organized thugs are successfully moving
in on big-city coin-machine operations, especially in the jukebox
business and in pinball games; 2) principal tool of the thugs is the
corrupt labor union, endowed with all the protection extended by law to
legitimate labor. Said McClellan: "The ease with which some of these
unions were...